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My mother thought me a juk sing or a hollow bamboo devoid of proper Chinese values and culture and taught me to question what it means to be Chinese. Asian American Studies provided the community and intellectual forum to share, write, research, and act on this seminal question.
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Eng, B.C. (2021). All I Have Are My Experiences: The Soil That Nurtures and Flourishes. In: Personal Narratives of Teacher Knowledge. Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82032-9_2
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